xi, 288 pages ; 23 cm

A study of the early texts in ordination to the offices of greatest antiquity in the Christian churches of East and West. These offices include bishop, presbyter, deacon, deaconess, subdeacon, acolyte and reader. The author introduces the primary sources of the texts and outlines the nuclear structure of the ordination ritual and comments on the prayers and ceremonies proper to each order. Then in the second part of the book, he offers English translations of the texts available

Spine title: Ordination rites of East and West

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index

Part 1. Introduction. The sources -- The structure of the rites -- Bishop -- Presbyter -- Deacon -- Deaconess -- Minor orders -- Part 2. Patristic texts. Apostolic tradition of Hippolytus -- Canons of Hippolytus -- Apostolic constitutions -- Testamentum domini -- Sacramentary of Sarapion -- Part 3. Eastern texts. Armenian -- Byzantine -- Coptic -- East Syrian -- Georgian -- Jacobite -- Maronite -- Milkite -- Part 4. Western texts. Roman -- Gallican -- Mozarabic -- An ordination prayer used in England: the Leofric Missal -- The later composite rite: the sacramentary of Angoulême

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